Monday, 7 September 2015

SEA is Meant to be SAILED upon

The
ocean is a mariner's factory. When you successfully face a storm at
sea, you're one storm closer to becoming a true mariner. Surviving a
single storm at sea may not make you into a mariner, but it's a step in
the right direction.

Becoming
a mariner takes time, because it requires years to get to know the sea
in all of its moods. You can't get to know it from books. You can read
about it all you want, but until you experience it first hand, you
won't understand the wiles of the sea. You need to put thousands of
miles in your wake before you know the sea and know that you know it.

Becoming
a mariner is a catch-22 situation. You shouldn't go to sea unless you
are a mariner, and you can't become a mariner unless you go to sea.

Knowing
the sea, and knowing that you know it, isn't impossible, it just takes
time. If you are patient and put in the time, your confidence will
increase, and you will know that the sea was meant to sailed upon, You
will become a true mariner.

Even
till today Sailor and his Ship still remains unknown to the average
person! How ships cross the oceans, how cargoes are converted into
packages delivered by the postman, how oil is transported from the
Middle East and Scotch Whiskey ends up in Japan is never questioned.
These things happen and nobody feels the urge or curiosity to
investigate further. And so, when confronted by a seafarer’s workload
the mind goes blank! “My car doesn’t carry an Engineer”, they mutter,
“so why should a ship need one”?

All
I can tell u now is : Sail the ship and you will remember the
experience at sea and feel of ship for whole life and obviously working
on ship is not everyones play.